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The "Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
The "Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
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"Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
"Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
Faculty Publications
This article will consider four areas of concern. First, the structural changes underway in the Chinese economy are creating both domestic and international imbalances that exacerbate inequalities among Chinese workers and create new inequities in the global labor market. Second, the Chinese regime's approach to labor rights remains rigidly authoritarian and, as a result, it is triggering ever more dramatic confrontations between workers and the Chinese state, despite the regime's nominal commitment to "socialism." Third, these developments are being reinforced by a pathological evolution in the principles that govern key international institutions such as the WTO and the ILO. A …